September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
..., the first phase of this effort is embodied within the current discussion in the United States and Europe on space traffic management (STM), but we need to conceptualise it for the international level and then scale it down to decide what...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
...encouraged by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). A lack of comprehensive space traffic management (STM) means there is no global system to coordinate space traffic effectively, so satellite operators and launch companies rely...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
.... With reusable launch vehicles soon becoming the more frequent, the need for integrating ATM with Space Traffic Management (STM) is becoming an urgent necessity. ADS-B over Satellite Signals from GNSS systems are vulnerable and need to be augmented...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
... has been addressed to some extent with the push to implement Space Traffic Management (STM). However, there are concerns that, while spectrum management has been included in the European STM programme, within the USA it covers only the physical side...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
.... Under the rubric of rational and efficient use of orbits, we should include the need to develop a system for space traffic management (STM), which has been discussed for some time. The following two points are relevant to the current...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... depend, but also direct loss of human life, due to a lack of adequate space situational awareness, and the absence of an institutionalised system of space traffic management (STM). They are not strange bedfellows after all because everything that...
